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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



had been experimenting on the eyes of the larvae of Ktinomos autumnaria. 

 In the attempt to ascertain the physiological significance oi the eyes, 

 some of these larvfe had been blinded with a photographic varnish 

 rendered opaque with lamp-black. It seemed impossible to imagine a 

 more innocent material, and, furthermore, the application was but of 

 short duration, for the varnish did not adhere well to the smooth 

 chitin, and it was soon rubbed off — probably an accidental result of the 

 ordinary movements of the larvie. Nevertheless, when the corres- 

 ponding imagines emerged, the speaker was intensely surprised to find 

 that they were entirely devoid of eyes, and that the antennae were 

 generally rudimentary. He could only suppose that something in the 

 varnish, perhaps the spirit, penetrated the pores in the chitin and 

 injured the subjacent tissues. 



Owing to the large quantity of MSS. in hand at the present time, 

 the twelve nos. of the current volume will appear as follows : January 

 loth, February 15th, March 1st, March 15th, April 15th, May 15th, 

 June 15th, July 15th, September 15th, October 15th, November 15th, 

 December 15th. This Avill throw the number hitherto printed on 

 June 1st to March 1st, and so relieve us of some of the immediate 

 pressure on our space. 



The list of Officers and Council for the Entomological Society of 

 London, for the ensuing year, is as follows : — President : Prof. Edward 

 B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. Treasurer: Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. 

 Secretaries : Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and Henry Rowland-Brown, M.A. 

 Librarian: George C. Champion, F.Z.S. Council: Lieut. -Colonel 

 Charles Bingham, F.Z.S. , Dr. Thomas A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., 

 Arthur John Chitty, M.A., James Edward Collin, Dr. Frederick A. 

 Dixey, M.A., M.D., Hamilton H. C. J. Druce, F.Z.S., Williain .John 

 Lucas, B.A., the Rev. Francis D. Morice, M.A., the Hon. N. Charles 

 Rothschild, M.A., F.L.S., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel 

 Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Colonel John W. Yerbury, R.A., 

 F.Z.S. 



(CHRISTMAS MDCCCCIII. 



Forget the year, the faithless year, 

 That knew not warmth or sun : 



Let it fi,o hence without a tear : 

 Ah ! well that it is done! 



The March-buds promised fair. We 

 cried, 



On May-day we shall see 

 In hedgerow and by forest-ride 



A-fiower the Hawthorn-tree! 



The swallow came, the cuckoo came, 



And the shy bird of song : 

 But shame upon thee, Spring ! and 

 shame 



Upon thee, Summer! Long, 



How long we waited, and in vain I 

 The stricken days went by, 



To ceaseless drip of rain on rain 

 From out the sodden sky. 



Ah ! Autumn, it will mend our ill, 

 Prisoners of hope, we cried : 



And Autumn came as poor and chill 

 As the Spring or Summer tide. 



And now the barren Winter's here. 

 And now we know the end. 



Go bury the false, fallen year. 

 Dying without a friend. 



But still over all the Sun's i' the sky 

 And it's Life that shall still be sung ; 



For the sap yet stirs in the thicket dry, 

 And the old, old Earth is young ! 



Selwyn Image, 



M.A. 



* Published by kind permission of the author, who v.'rote this for private circulation 

 among friends.— Eu. 



